Bollinger

If you're doing more than 5mph, you can throw it from N to D without hitting the brake.

I drove a friends car, and it required pushing the button to go from R to D. I thought that was odd (spent 1 year on Audi auto, stick before that). Until I remembered way back that that was normal. Odd that Audi will let you do it without a button or braking as long as you are moving.

Bollinger

Get into neutral, get the revs up, then drop it back into gear.

There's two problems with this:
1. It's called a "neutral drop" to rev the engine and then drop it into gear. It is terrible for the tranny. Bad enough that car mags which will willingly abuse a stick with clutch dumps won't do neutral drops because they are so much more damaging.
2. If getting the revs up would let you get more power to the rear end, the tranny would have the torque converter unlocked to allow it while in gear. So, by popping out of gear and back in, you probably lose more power during the time out of gear than you get back when you drop it back in, especially with the engagement lag of an auto tranny.